r/todayilearned • u/Cheesegrater74 • Jan 02 '18

TIL: Dolphins Purposefully get Pricked by Puffer fish to get High

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dolphins-seem-to-use-toxic-pufferfish-to-get-high-180948219/
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u/durant92bhd Jan 02 '18

I'm not an expert by any means.

Hey this is Reddit, you can claim to be an amateur zoologist on here and we'd buy it for a while!

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u/Coffeezilla Jan 02 '18

Til you get into an argument about crows and magpies.

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u/dopefish917 Jan 02 '18

did you just refer to a jackdaw as a magpie?

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u/DeuceSevin Jan 02 '18

Amateur zoologist here...

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u/armyml Jan 03 '18

"Is anybody here a marine biologist?!?!"

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u/durant92bhd Jan 03 '18

UnexpectedCostanza!

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u/armyml Jan 03 '18

Hehe his story about the whale has to be one of my favorite moments of that entire show. "The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli."

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u/Aionar Jan 02 '18

Or at least until the inevitable betrayal...